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The schism in the Republican party is affecting Michael Steele and the RNC. Is Michael Steele on drugs? When has the Republican party ever apologized for mistakes of the past? This guy is a loon.

Seeing Obama on the news with his daily dictate curtailing our freedom, I was prompted to send the following email to my representatives:

Pharaoh Obama and his divine wisdom were on the all Obama news channels as he dictated how our lives are going to be again today, like every other day since he was anointed. I'm honored to know how the ancient Egyptians would have felt if they had had TVs, banks and cars. If somebody is bold enough to ask Great Pharaoh a question, maybe you should ask him if we have his permission to change the name of the country to the United States of Obama.

Yours with head dutifully bowed in respect for Great Pharaoh,

Mark

If automakers wanted to make cars with tough efficiency standards, they could do so without Pharaoh Obama dictating it. This is a huge gift from Obama to foreign auto makers, who are pointing and laughing at how stupid we are and loving every minute of it.

At least credit card companies are fighting Obama's dictates. This is going to raise credit card rates for everybody.

Supposedly safer cigarettes may be responsible for increases in lung cancer.

Video of fossil proclaimed to be ancestor of man, apes and monkeys.

As much as we dislike illegal immigration, that's a lot better problem to have than people not wanting to come here.

The prospects for new immigrants are not what they used to be. The land of the free has become the land of a shrinking economy due to the despotic arm of the US state.

It seems that Mexicans are not so anxious to live in the great Obama utopia of debt, inflation, nationalization, bailouts, and regimentation.

Neither am I.

Emigration out of the United States has been growing every year since 1991, from 252,000 in 1991 to 311,000 in 2005. I couldn't find data past that point, but can there be any doubt where we are heading with this? Low-skilled employees want nothing to do with us. High-skilled employees are not allowed in. Enterprise is being killed at every turn. It won't be long now before larger and larger numbers of people vote with their feet.

A final insult is how US tax law treats its emigrants from this country. It continues to tax them as if they were lifetime slaves. Wherever you go, the force is with you.

The heck of it is that all of this could be turned around today. A social consensus against tyranny can form and strengthen. It only takes political will to let freedom reign.

Amen.

I am getting one of these Rothbard enemy of the state flasks. I'm sure there'll be enough interest.

Mises scholar explains the unconstitutionality of unaccountable Federal agencies.

For people in the private sector, "give back" is nonsense. But in Obama's world where everybody is dependent on government, giving back makes sense. Give it all back you freeloaders.

Government would have to raise Federal income taxes 81 percent (and pretend the economy would show no negative effects from that) to cover all its obligations. Can you say impending financial meltdown that would make the collapse of the Soviet Union look like a day of having to take your own lunch to work? I knew you could. And I would like to personally thank Pharaoh Obama for making this problem significantly worse and more immediate.

Why do shareholders need government to give them power? They own the damn companies and can do whatever they want with them already.

The poster child for Keysenian economics, Japan, saw it's GDP fall by 15.2 percent last quarter, following a drop of 14.4 percent in Q4. OMG, what a disaster. This is the model Obama, Geither and Bernanke are following. Build your bunker before it's too late. I never thought of it before, but the name Masaaki Shirakawa sounds a lot more like Maria Sharipova than a Chinese name. I wonder how much the Japanese language derived from Russia.

Quote:

“There is a huge problem of over-capacity,” said Hiromichi Shirakawa, chief economist at Credit Suisse Group AG in Tokyo. “That means capital spending is not likely to pickup. It’ll keep sliding for another two to three quarters and then stabilize, but not pick up.”

I wonder who would have predicted that? Oh yeah, that's the malinvestment predicted by the Austrians.

Yet another Harvard economist, probably educated and paid by our tax dollars, recommends 6 percent inflation. Let's get this straight. This supposed expert thinks the solution to our economic problems is to take 6 percent of our money every year and light it on fire. I feel richer already. Lesson to be learned - never send your child to Harvard or vote for an Ivy leaguer.